A friend of mine asked me if it was possible to use machine learning to identify bird calls from recordings. My initial response is: this sound hard & I don’t t

A friend of mine asked me if it was possible to use machine learning to identify bird calls from recordings. My initial response is: this sound hard & I don’t think the available datasets of identified bird recordings are anywhere near big enough to successfully train a DNN. I’d love to be proved wrong but if the state of the art is 85% accuracy in just recognising bird song in the first place then identifying individual species is a long way off.